Kara Kohler
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Full name | Kara Michelle Kohler | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1991-01-20) January 20, 1991 (age 33) Clayton, California, U.S. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 181 lb (82 kg) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Single sculls, Quadruple sculls, Coxless four | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kara Michelle Kohler (/ˈkɛərə ˈkoʊlər/ KAIR-ə KOH-lər; born January 20, 1991)[1][2] is an American female crew rower. She won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the quadruple sculls event. She also has a World Championship gold medal in the coxless four and a World Championship bronze in the single sculls.
Career
Kohler swam through high school and started rowing at University of California, Berkeley.[3] In 2011, she was named a Division I first team All-American.[4] She was a member of the crew that won the I Eight at the 2013 NCAA Rowing Championships. Within two years of starting to row, she was part of the United States under-23 team, winning a gold medal in the women's eights at the 2010 U-23 World Championship.[3]
In 2011 Kohler was part of the US team that won the coxless four at the World Championships, alongside Sarah Zelenka, Emily Regan and Sara Hendershot.[5]
2012 saw Kohler, Natalie Dell, Megan Kalmoe and Adrienne Martelli win bronze in the women's quadruple sculls at the Olympic Games.[6] She was not selected for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and nearly quit rowing.[7]
After switching to the single sculls in 2018,[8] Kohler won the bronze medal at the 2019 World Championships.[9] That year, she was also named US Rowing's female Rower of the Year.[7]
On February 26, 2021, Kohler won the USA Olympic Trials race for single sculls to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics[10]
In 2022, Kohler won the Princess Royal Challenge Cup (the premier women's singles sculls event) at the Henley Royal Regatta, rowing for the Texas Rowing Center.[11]
References
- ^ "KOHLER Kara". Olympics.com. 2024. Retrieved August 11, 2024.
- ^ "Kara Kohler". London2012.com. London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on August 1, 2012. Retrieved August 1, 2012.
- ^ a b "Kara KOHLER". worldrowing.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "Kara Kohler – 2019 – Senior National Team". USRowing.org. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "2011 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS – Bled, SLO – (W4-) Women's Four – Final". worldrowing.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "2012 OLYMPIC GAMES – London, GBR – (W4x) Women's Quadruple Sculls – Final". worldrowing.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ a b Bedecarré, Jay (October 16, 2019). "Kara Kohler named USRowing female athlete of the year". pioneerpublishers.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ Bedecarré, Jay (September 1, 2019). "Clayton's Kara Kohler wins bronze medal at World Rowing Championships in Austria". pioneerpublishers.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "2019 WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS – Linz Ottensheim, AUT – (W1x) Women's Single Sculls – Final". worldrowing.com. Retrieved August 9, 2020.
- ^ "Kara Kohler is first U.S. rower to qualify for Tokyo Olympics". olympics.nbcsports.com. February 26, 2021. Retrieved February 26, 2021.
- ^ "Diamond Challenge Sculls, List of past winners". Henley Royal Regatta. Retrieved August 5, 2024.
External links
- Kara Kohler at World Rowing
- Kara Kohler at Olympics.com
- Kara Kohler at Olympedia
- Kara Kohler at Team USA (archived)
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(Christiane Harzendorf, Ina Justh, Annegret Strauch, Ute Wild)
- 1990:
(Doina Șnep-Bălan, Iulia Bobeică, Marioara Curela, Doina Ciucanu-Robu)
- 1991:
(Kirsten Barnes, Jennifer Doey, Jessica Monroe, Brenda Taylor)
- 1993:
(Pei Jiayun, Wang Shujuan, Zhou Yaxin, Jing Yanhua)
- 1994:
(Femke Boelen, Elien Meijer, Muriel van Schilfgaarde, Rita de Jong)
- 1995:
(Cindy Brooks, Melissa Iverson, Lianne Nelson, Katherine Scanlon Lewis)
- 1996:
(Emily Dirksen, Sara Field, Amy Turner, Rosana Zegarra)
- 1997:
(Alex Beever, Lisa Eyre, Elizabeth Henshilwood, Sue Walker)
- 1998:
(Yevheniya Andrieieva, Tatyana Fesenko, Nina Proskura, Tetyana Savchenko)
- 1999:
(Yuliya Bichyk, Elena Mikulitch, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak)
- 2000:
(Iryna Bazyleuskaya, Natallia Helakh, Olga Tratsevskaya, Marina Znak)
- 2001:
(Jane Robinson, Julia Wilson, Jo Lutz, Victoria Roberts)
- 2002:
(Kristina Larsen, Jodi Winter, Rebecca Sattin, Victoria Roberts)
- 2003:
(Liane Malcos, Whitney Webber, Caryn Davies, Wendy Wilbur)
- 2004:
(Marjolaine Rossit, Celia Foulon, Audrey Galy, Marie Le Nepvou)
- 2005:
(Robyn Selby Smith, Emily Martin, Pauline Frasca, Kate Hornsey)
- 2006:
(Robyn Selby Smith, Jo Lutz, Amber Bradley, Kate Hornsey)
- 2007:
(Portia McGee, Erin Cafaro, Rachel Jeffers, Megan Dirkmaat)
- 2008:
(Hanna Nakhayeva, Volha Shcharbachenia, Natallia Helakh, Yuliya Bichyk)
- 2009:
(Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
- 2010:
(Chantal Achterberg, Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw, Femke Dekker)
- 2011:
(Sarah McIlduff, Kara Kohler, Emily Regan, Sara Hendershot)
- 2013:
(Emily Huelskamp, Olivia Coffey, Tessa Gobbo, Felice Mueller)
- 2014:
(Kayla Pratt, Kelsey Bevan, Grace Prendergast, Kerri Williams)
- 2015:
(Kristine O'Brien, Grace Latz, Adrienne Martelli, Grace Luczak)
- 2016:
(Fiona Gammond, Donna Etiebet, Holly Nixon, Holly Norton)
- 2017:
(Lucy Stephan, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Molly Goodman)
- 2018:
(Madeleine Wanamaker, Erin Boxberger, Molly Bruggeman, Erin Reelick)
- 2019:
(Olympia Aldersey, Katrina Werry, Sarah Hawe, Lucy Stephan)
- 2022:
(Heidi Long, Rowan McKellar, Samantha Redgrave, Rebecca Shorten)
- 2023:
(Marloes Oldenburg, Hermijntje Drenth, Tinka Offereins, Benthe Boonstra)
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